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• My grandmother spoiled my father rotten and he grew up expecting women to do whatever he wanted. When he married my beautiful mother, Elsa, he expected her to give up her career as a champion ballroom dancer and become a good wife and mother, which she dutifully did.

  Joan Collins

  Beautiful, Mother, Giving Up

  "Joan Collins: My family values". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2013.

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• If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Mind, Get Involved, Things To Do

  "Jarvis Cocker answers your questions: 'Go on, then, give us the horrible ones'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2011.

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• Doesn't expecting the unexpected make the unexpected expected?

  Bob Dylan

  Witty, Unexpected, Expected

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• I am expecting that consumers are going to continue and exert power and influence. The idea of radical transparency is something that few brands are taking advantage of now, and most brands fight it. I’d say that in 10 years the best brands won’t be those with the best stories, sort of made up fictional stories, but those that will give an accurate and real time picture of what they are doing in the interest of the consumer, in any given time.

  Alex Bogusky

  Real, Fighting, Years

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• I'm going to keep thinking about topping myself every time. I can say very confidently that Alice In Chains have done that on every record. It surprises me. I don't go in there expecting that, but I do go in there hoping for it.

  Jerry Cantrell

  Thinking, Done, Records

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• Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.

  Julie Burchill

  Would Be, Hills, Humour

  "Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk - review". www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• I don't concern myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you relieve yourself of the very arbitrary and always punishing pressure of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and pure.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Fun, Character, Thinking

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• I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Believe, Book, Winning

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• Those who want success should think like a planter. They should understand that having the right seed is an essential key to success, but they must also understand that the soil that they entrust to the seed is just as vital Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?.

  Eric Thomas

  Thinking, Keys, Yield

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• People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are merely incidental, not the essence of the matter. Philosophy is about subtilizing and tuning up the coherence and acuity of one's seeing, it is about opening new dimensions for insight, learning to think about what one is doing when one thinks instead of just blundering through the processes of putting thoughts together.

  Kenny Smith

  Wisdom, Philosophy, Thinking

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• After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she'd looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn't joking. He was warning her.

  Louise Penny

  Life, Distance, Father

  Louise Penny (2014). “The Long Way Home: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.22, Macmillan

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• Putting a computer in front of a child and expecting it to teach him is like putting a book under his pillow, only more expensive

  Joseph Weizenbaum

  Children, Book, Computer

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• The problems in life come when we're sowing one thing and expecting to reap something entirely different.

  Stephen Covey

  Law Of Attraction, Sowing, Different

  Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill (1995). “First Things First”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• So many people are expecting a miracle instead of BEING a miracle.

  Wayne Dyer

  People, Miracle, Awareness

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.55, Hay House, Inc

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• I have but nothing to say to young girls. They're fine to look at, in the way I would look at a case filled with Shang dynasty glazes, but expecting to carry on a conversation with the average teen-aged young lady is akin to reading Voltaire to a cage filled with chimpanzees. I'm certain they would feel the same alienation for me. I can live with that knowledge.

  Harlan Ellison

  Girl, Women, Reading

  Harlan Ellison (2014). “Love Ain't Nothing But Sex Misspelled”, p.278, Open Road Media

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• I don't go to the start line expecting to win. I go to the start believing this could be the day when incredible things happen

  Ryan Hall

  Believe, Winning, Lines

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• I've always made sure that I tour with bands that people aren't expecting me to tour with.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  People, Band, Made

  "Chromeo Opener Mayer Hawthorne Gets 'funny Looks' From Fans" by Vaughn Trudeau Schoonmaker, www.mtv.com. November 15, 2011.

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• But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it's always when you're least expecting it.

  Bear Grylls

  Doe, Stuff, Unpredictable

  FaceBook post by Bear Grylls from Aug 18, 2015

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• Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Impact, Profound, Achievement

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• Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Baby, Sex, Risk

  "Francis Ford Coppola: On Risk, Money, Craft & Collaboration". Interview with Ariston Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2011.

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• The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

  Alain de Botton

  Anxiety, Might, Ancestor

  Alain De Botton (2008). “Status Anxiety”, p.44, Vintage

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• To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and expecting so much from it, would not the tide ebb as strongly as it was flowing? It is a rash game this setting our hearts on any future beyond what we have our own selves control over. Things do not walk as we settle with ourselves they ought to walk, and to hope is almost the correlative of to be disappointed.

  James Anthony Froude

  Heart, Self, Games

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.54

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• Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Rabbits, Bunnies, Hats

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• Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Mean

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• In our own lives, having a mind-set of expecting to win increases our odds of winning. It helps us get better results. And better results help us increase our credibility and self-confidence, which leads to more positive self-expectancy, and more winning - and the upward cycle continues. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Self Confidence, Winning

  Stephen R. Covey, Rebecca R. Merrill (2008). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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